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Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl when she met Neal Cassady, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises, in Denver, 1945. "One and Only" recounts the immense struggles of her life, which ranged from the split-up of her family to the ravages of abusive men, lingering illness, and the grief of losing the two most important men in her life. 242 pp.

Gerald Nicosia is a biographer, historian, poet, playwright and novelist. His biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe, won the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress. Called a “great book” by Allen Ginsberg and “by far the best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac’s life and work” by William Burroughs, it is still widely regarded as the definitive work on Kerouac. From his years of work with Vietnam veterans on their issues of healing from the war came his book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, which won numerous honors and was picked by the Los Angeles Times as one of the “Best Books of the Year” in 2001. He has written numerous critical articles and reviews for almost every major newspaper in the U.S., and he publishes his poetry widely in the small presses, having earned a number of Pushcart nominations along the way. He has read his own work and organized readings on several continents, and has lectured on the Beats, Vietnam and the Sixties literally worldwide, at such venues as Columbia University in New York, Cambridge University in England, the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, the Commune in Livorno, Italy and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. Nicosia was tapped by Director Walter Salles to pioneer the "Beat Boot Camp," creating an immersion experience for the actors in the upcoming major movie of On the Road.

Introduction	p. 17
Note to the Transcription	p. 37
Interview with Lu Anne	p. 45
Lu Anne's Role in Beat History / Cultural History	p. 167
Al Hinkle's Story	p. 179
Letter to Neal	p. 201
A Daughter's Recollection	p. 207
About the Authors	p. 243
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One and Only The Untold Story of On the Road

One and Only The Untold Story of On the Road

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